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The Pulse of Mood Online: Unveiling Emotional Reactions in a Dynamic Social Media Landscape
Siyi Guo, Zihao He, Ashwin Rao +3
The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely m…
Pandemic Culture Wars: Partisan Differences in the Moral Language of COVID-19 Discussions
Ashwin Rao, Siyi Guo, Sze-Yuh Nina Wang +2
Effective response to pandemics requires coordinated adoption of mitigation measures, like masking and quarantines, to curb a virus's spread. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic demo…
Gender and Prestige Bias in Coronavirus News Reporting
Rebecca Dorn, Yiwen Ma, Fred Morstatter +1
Journalists play a vital role in surfacing issues of societal importance, but their choices of what to highlight and who to interview are influenced by societal biases. In this wor…
Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
Juergen Pfeffer, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka +13
At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of int…
Retweets Amplify the Echo Chamber Effect
Ashwin Rao, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
The growing prominence of social media in public discourse has led to a greater scrutiny of the quality of online information and the role it plays in amplifying political polariza…
Partisan Asymmetries in Exposure to Misinformation
Ashwin Rao, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
Health misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about the role of social media in polarization and so…
Mapping Moral Valence of Tweets Following the Killing of George Floyd
J. Hunter Priniski, Negar Mokhberian, Bahareh Harandizadeh +4
The viral video documenting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin inspired nation-wide protests that brought national attention to widespread raci…
Political Partisanship and Anti-Science Attitudes in Online Discussions about Covid-19
Ashwin Rao, Fred Morstatter, Minda Hu +4
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage communities across the US. Opinion surveys identified importance of political ideology in shaping perceptions of the pandemic and…
Aggressive, Repetitive, Intentional, Visible, and Imbalanced: Refining Representations for Cyberbullying Classification
Caleb Ziems, Ymir Vigfusson, Fred Morstatter
Cyberbullying is a pervasive problem in online communities. To identify cyberbullying cases in large-scale social networks, content moderators depend on machine learning classifier…
Debiasing Community Detection: The Importance of Lowly-Connected Nodes
Ninareh Mehrabi, Fred Morstatter, Nanyun Peng +1
Community detection is an important task in social network analysis, allowing us to identify and understand the communities within the social structures. However, many community de…
Identifying and Analyzing Cryptocurrency Manipulations in Social Media
Mehrnoosh Mirtaheri, Sami Abu-El-Haija, Fred Morstatter +2
Interest surrounding cryptocurrencies, digital or virtual currencies that are used as a medium for financial transactions, has grown tremendously in recent years. The anonymity sur…
Mining and Forecasting Career Trajectories of Music Artists
Shushan Arakelyan, Fred Morstatter, Margaret Martin +2
Many musicians, from up-and-comers to established artists, rely heavily on performing live to promote and disseminate their music. To advertise live shows, artists often use concer…
Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users
Suhas Ranganath, Fred Morstatter, Xia Hu +2
Social media has emerged to be a popular platform for people to express their viewpoints on political protests like the Arab Spring. Millions of people use social media to communic…
When is it Biased? Assessing the Representativeness of Twitter's Streaming API
Fred Morstatter, Jürgen Pfeffer, Huan Liu
Twitter has captured the interest of the scientific community not only for its massive user base and content, but also for its openness in sharing its data. Twitter shares a free 1…
Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose
Fred Morstatter, Jürgen Pfeffer, Huan Liu +1
Twitter is a social media giant famous for the exchange of short, 140-character messages called "tweets". In the scientific community, the microblogging site is known for openness…